Chinese Numbers Explained

Temperature -

温度

wēn dù

- is pretty straightforward, apart from having two different temperature units, celsius and fahrenheit. China, like most of the rest of the world, uses celsius

摄氏

shè shì

, while in the U.S. fahrenheit

华氏

huá shì

, is still more common. Scientists use the Kelvin scale

开尔文	kāi ěr wén

. To ask what the temperature is: If you're referring to the weather, you generally talk about 'air temperature'

气温

qì wēn

instead of

温度

wēn dù

, which is more commonly used when talking about the weather: You can add a time word at the beginning to ask about today, yesterday, or tomorrow: If you expect the temperature to be very low, you can also ask in this way, using

几

jǐ

instead of

多少

duō shāo

. 几 is used when the expected answer is a small number: Expressing the temperature is very straightforward: If the units are left off, it’s generally assumed you’re talking about Celsius: Often when it’s very cold, temperatures are expressed relative to zero, using

零下

líng xià

(below zero) and

零上	líng shàng

(above zero): The coldest possible temperature — the point at which all molecular motion stops — is absolute zero, 0 on the Kelvin scale

开尔文度	kāi ěr wén dù

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